+1 for the name! Reminds me of Rick "adios, mofo" Perry, the dumdum TX governor. Funny forever. However, I will stop giggling for the next 3 minutes to go brush & floss. I'm so sorry you don't have coverage. Please follow the advice below and get thee to a dentist. A compassionate provider will work with you to get you the care you need.

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I know you said that you had no dental insurance but I don't see how waiting is going to help. There are a number of articles on the web on how to temporarily cement a crown back on but some of the articles cite cases where doing your own temporary cement job is not advisable.

Most areas have dental schools with sliding scale fees. You might have to wait a few weeks if you aren't in pain, but they'll get you in, and won't charge more than you can afford.

Many dentists will also allow for payment plans lasting up to 12 months if you don't have insurance, as long as you set it up before the appointment. Can you pay $10-15/month for the next year to put off having to pay many hundreds of dollars later on?

Depends on which tooth the crown was on. I have several crowns, and one on an upper molar came off. No amount of temporary cementing would keep that thing up there, and not having dental insurance at the time, I had to wait. Now it's been several months, I now have insurance, and went to the dentist only to find that my teeth had drifted enough to make it impossible to put back on.

But, on the other hand, I also had a lower molar crown come off and was able to easily stick it back on sans cement, for the few months it took me to get insurance.

However, best advice is still to see a dentist ASAP. There are many dentists who will make payment arrangements, and gluing a crown back on if it's only been a short time is a lot cheaper than replacing a crown altogether.

I had one that was loose and none of my dentists believed me, let it go for a while and finally changed to a new dentist who saw that it was indeed loose, removed it and it was full of food, I had to have a root canal. Ended up being much more expensive than re-affixing the crown!